Unless it’s because they just deleted something on the camera and didn’t realize that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s gone. Then it’s hilarious!

So it is with Carlos Miller, an accredited photojournalist who was arrested for the crime of recording the doings of cops at Occupy Miami protests. Miller was arrested for one count of resisting arrest, which is odd since usually that charge accompanies other charges. When he was released, he found all the videos taken on his camera had been deleted, including the one of his arrest, which clearly shows him not resisting.

Unfortunately, the Miami PD had never learned the words “data recovery” in between all the bribe-taking, and Miller was able to retrieve portions of the video. He’s going to take it to a forensic specialist, and involve the Department of Justice, but we imagine the fine officers have learned their lesson.

The US has moved from #27 to #47 in the world in terms of press freedom specifically because of the crackdown on the media (particularly citizen journalists) at #Occupy Wall Street events. It’s nice to see a couple of the cops muck up the job of erasing the evidence. Now we’ll see if the Miami-Dade prosecutor has any balls and believes in justice and will prosecute these bad guys.

If he was recording to an SD card or other non tape-based technology, as long as he doesn’t record any more video to that card he should be able to undelete absolutely everything on it. Deleting the video isn’t wiping the card with 1’s and 0’s.